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Summer to-do list
Take the challenge The big finish As running events go, few set themselves apart like the Soldier Field 10 Mile. The 10th-anniversary course makes its way along the lakefront and then finishes, spectacularly, on the 50-yard line of Soldier Field, with...
Tags: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Swimming, Chicago Cubs, Nellcote, Music
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Google giving away free admission to three Chicago museums
RedEyeFeel like a field trip? Just in time for a three day weekend, Google has announced users of its Field Trip app can snag free admission to The Adler Planetarium, The Field Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The free admission to...Tags: Google Inc., Arts and Culture, Google+, Field Museum of Natural History, Arts
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'Cosmic Wonder': New Adler show goes deep into universe
I've seen three shows now in Adler Planetarium's still new, still state-of-the-art central domed theater, and I remain amazed at the quality of the celestial imagery and at the precision with which it is projected up on the dome. Journeys into distant...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Arts and Culture, Orion Space Mission, Microsoft Corporation
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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown by...Tags: Arts and Culture, Youth Organizations, Arts, Elmo, China
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Harris: Project gets off to 'beautiful' start
The stickers are simple and, well, beautiful. Printed on reflective silver, they're cut in the size and shape of a nametag and say "you are beautiful" in bold, black print. They're the "all-encompassing" artistic statement of Chicago graphic...
Tags: Auction Service, Apple iPhone, Melissa Harris, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Science and Technology
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Political Fundraising, Layoffs and Downsizing, Colleges and Universities, Financial Markets
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Research, Political Fundraising, Lobbying, Biology, Colleges and Universities
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10 years after Daley's Meigs Field raid, the makeover of Northerly Island is slow to take shape
Ten years ago as Mayor Richard M. Daley worked through political channels to accelerate federal approval to build new runways at the airport his father had dearly called "O'Hara," the mayor also issued an infamous order to destroy Chicago's little...
Tags: Ecosystems, Chicago Hotels, Architecture, Local Government, Federal Aviation Administration
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O'Hare UFO sighting in 2006 one of the most famous reported
For RedEyeThe city of Chicago isn’t known as a hotbed of UFO activity, but O’Hare Airport is the home of one of the most publicized sightings of the last decade. A “flying saucer-like object” was spotted over Concourse C of the United...Tags: Electronics, O'Hare International Airport, Stephen Colbert, Weather, Science and Technology
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Chicago X-files: Center studies UFOs
For RedEyeOpening a file cabinet at the Center for UFO Studies reveals manila folders marked with spine-tingling titles such as "Alien Luggage Report," "Project Moonwater" or "The CIA's role in UFO Studies." Yet, elsewhere there's a conspicuous lack of secret...Tags: Research, Services and Shopping, Kidnapping, Prosecution, The X-Files (tv program)
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Naperville teen misses final cut for 'American Idol'
Talented Naperville teenager Alex Oechsel loves to sing. She also acts, dances and plays guitar, but she mainly loves to sing. Perhaps that's why, after surviving multiple elimination rounds but missing the final cut to appear on the "American Idol"...
Tags: Jesus Christ Superstar (musical), Martina McBride, American Idol (tv program), Music, Arts and Culture
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Signing up for summer camp
Frigid February temperatures notwithstanding, it's not too early to plan where to send the kids to camp this summer. Throughout the city and the suburbs, a number of museums, botanical gardens and zoos offer hands-on learning experiences built around...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Agricultural Research and Technology, Morton Arboretum, Science and Technology, Lincoln Park Zoo
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